Dear Cynthia and others,
Thank you for mentioning the book Bobbins of Belgium by Charlotte Kellog. I
have just downloaded a copy from
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/books/kc_lace.pdf and looking
forward to reading it.
Joke Sinclair from a bright sunny Sussex
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For a long time I used knitting stitch holders but have broken a few
spangles that way. Last summer I watched a lady at the Poole lace day with
her craft bendy pipe cleaner type things (in lots of pretty colours) and
have gone over to those. I can use the bobbins from either end and keep
Sorry I'm just catching up on this thread so I hope this applies.
From a
report in the Bedfordshire Standard newspaper in May 1922 - English Lady
Inglefield O.B.E. visited Bruges in March 1920 to study the system of teaching
lace making. During the war (WW1) the school in Bruges had closed but
Susie is correct in saying that the reason some messages appear funny is
because the sender is not using plain text. Different systems interpret the
html or rich text in different ways, so the problem is partly the way the
message was sent and partly the way the receiving computer translates
Actually I have a worse problem. My email system actually locks ups when I
receive these emails and I have had my pc crash. My browser and ISP see these
emails as viruses.
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Kind Regards
Liz Baker
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chronicle of my bobbins can be found at my website:
Hello everyone
In all my years of lacemaking, the best thing I have found to
fasten the bobbins while working on a different area is the good old
bootlace.
Trainers come with in all colours and patterns nowadays,so its easy to match
laces.
Daphne
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Hi Arachnids,
Not only is it better to use a 'springy yarn as Jaquie from Lincoln says;
but please remember that British trebles are American doubles in crochet!
Depending on which type of bobbins I intend to use the strips for. I do 25
chain and use British trebles with one chain in between
Thank you for sending this link. I have just had great pleasure, both
from seeing the paintings you mentioned, and beginning to explore the
wealth of other art images on the website, (which I've bookmarked for
future visits).
By the way, when I searched on 'lace', I noticed that there was a
Thank you so much to everyone who chimed in on my translation question
for the inscriptions on some War Laces and on the spin-offs from that
conversation. Charlotte Kellogg's Bobbins of Belgium from 1920 is a
fascinating book about the War Laces, the lacemakers and the
organizers. Fortunately it
Thank you to everyone who answered my questions about crochet strips.
Lorelei
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Several years ago, at a Lace workshop, the hosts (Golden Bobbins in Charlotte!)
gave each of us a wonderful thing! It was made with two 1-yard lengths of 1/4
ribbon, which had been braided in the same manner as the lanyards we used to
make in Scouts when we were young(er)!
The length is
Surely there is a mention of the work of the author Edith Wharton (Age of
Innocence, Ethan Frome, House of Mirth, etc.) concerning the teaching of lace
in Belgium at that time?
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Hello Fellow Spiders,
Akiko from Japan gave me my first bobbin holders - she cuts old
pantyhose/tights/stockings(or whatever else you may call them) into 6mm
wide strips and uses the yarn created in this manner. Her tension is a
little looser than mine, so the ones she has given me are better
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